The aim of the INTERPRO project is to create a module to train social workers in working more effectively and more humanely in interprofessionality. Indeed, those actors coming from different backgrounds and sectors such as social, health, education and others ... are brought to support people in difficulty with looks and reference skills sometimes very different. This does not always help them to understand each other and be coherent with each other. Which sometimes brings disorder and contradictions in their modes of intervention. Example: a child has behavior problems in school that are due to a complicated family experience developing a lot of worry and agitation in him. How does the school teacher, the social worker or accompanying educator, the doctor who hesitates to prescribe Rilatine, the sports facilitator, the family mediator and the psychologist ... be able to agree on a way -coherent and beneficial for the youth- to accompany and hold him in this difficult phase? Social work is made up of multiple tensions: economic, political, training, demographic, complexity of demands, etc. which obliges its practitioners to rethink their action and to call on new ways of conceiving the intervention. In the words of Castel (1998) we have to do with a metamorphosis of the social question that questions the social relations and thus the bonds of solidarity but also the way of doing society. Ultimately our project wants to describe for the professions of social, educational, medical ... and others potentially involved in working with young people, the types of collaborations in action on the ground. It will explore the techniques and tools used in this interprofessional collaboration, in order to define the logic of action and determine their efficiency in the daily work. The INTERPRO training module will be the result of this reflection. It will be integrated in a spirit of sustainable social development at a time when "climate, energy, food, health and education of human beings are questionable" (Agten & Gillet Ensact 2011). It will be built on local social development using the resources of interprofessionality where they are, starting from what they are and giving them a new impetus through this new formation. The project will consist of three phases: Phase 1 ( 11-2019 to 09-2020): survey and observation on the way in which interprofessionality is lived and taught in each partner country. Phase 2 (09-2020 to 11-2021): experimentation of the INTERPRO module successively in four of the five partner countries of the project: Bulgaria, France, Portugal and Belgium, this under the supervision of our fifth partner from Quebec (Canada) with a recognized expertise on this issue. This phase will involve a total of a hundred or so people, students, professionals and trainers involved. Phase 3: (12-2021 to 08-2022): methodology of implementation in existing training courses. This will therefore concern several cohorts of students in training in partner universities as well as several groups of professionals in continuing education from the last year of the project. The expected INTERPRO impact of this project is important. Knowing that interprofessionality is a bit of a gray zone between professions in the social, educational and health sectors, there is great expectation in the various partner countries to see this training module for interprofessional skills being built. The regional and national impact will initially be mainly related to the different partner universities and associated institutions. This represents in each country several cohorts of students and professionals over several years. At the European level, the expected impact is to benefit from the contributions of each participating country through the best cross-fertilization of knowledge and thanks to the cooperation in the different phases of experimentation. At the international level, the contribution of Université de Sherbrooke's expertise is a plus that will benefit Europe and which will also bring Canada's openness to the European realities of interprofessionality.
Two essential objectives: -First, to realize a construction of knowledge concerning the modes of operation of interprofessionalism and to develop tools for facilitating interprofessional collaboration, is the basic approach of this project. Its purpose is to be able to highlight potential logics of action and to determine their efficiency in daily work. Several documents present in the different modules will inform the reader in this regard. - Second, to bring a response to the needs of professionals who currently have, in their initial and continuing training, very little access to interprofessional training, the structures and training courses being currently designed "in the box", each in its own silo. The Interpro educational kit is a tool for them. It can also be used by all training actors who wish to modify their training course, in the care, social and educational, psychological and legal professions, in the direction of better learning interprofessional collaboration. .
The INTERPRO project aims to create a module to train social workers to act more efficiently and more humanely in interprofessionalism. Indeed, these speakers from various backgrounds and sectors such as social, health, educational and others... are called upon to support people in difficulty with sometimes very different perspectives and skill sets. This does not always help them to understand each other and to be consistent with each other. This sometimes leads to disorder and contradictions in their modes of intervention. Some institutional barriers exist, work habits, each in his corporation, which can lead to a certain heaviness when it comes to cooperating with other categories of stakeholders. There is often even competition between different professions, leading each profession to preserve its pre-square. The question arises here of the need to recognize the specificity of each profession, and of the importance of articulating their own skills between them in the greatest interest of a coherent intervention with the beneficiary.